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Cunningham Swan’s student programme aims to provide future lawyers with the opportunity to become involved in all practice areas and all aspects of legal work. The goal is to develop students into skilled and competent lawyers who will contribute to the firm’s growth.

Follow this link for a detailed discussion and useful information: “Navigating over Filled Lands“. Straight lines and ninety-degree angles are extremely rare in nature. When one encounters them along the waterfront of real property in Ontario, this typically means that the original shoreline of the water body has been artificially altered. Such alteration may have …

On May 30, 2017, the province of Ontario passed key changes to the Municipal Act, 2001, the City of Toronto Act, the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act, the Municipal Elections Act, and other pieces of legislation. The various changes implemented through this legislation will have significant implications for municipalities and the public. A summary of …

We often get questions from employers about how to manage a reference check for an employee who has been terminated. The perceived concern is that if you give a bad reference, you could be liable for damages in defamation to the departing employee. On the flip side, if you give a good (but perhaps misleading …

Mental disorder and mental health issues have, for the last several years, been important issues facing the administration of the affairs of the Canadian Forces. They have also been important factors under the Code of Service Discipline. Consequently, they are key factors for various aspects of military justice. But have they been applied properly and …

If only we could magically see how the decisions we make today play out, we might take some comfort in knowing we made the best decision possible for all those involved. Alas, we have no magic mirror! But we can do our best to research our options and consider each factor that impacts the outcome …

As if having liability for harassment in the workplace under the Human Rights Code and its sixteen prohibited grounds of discrimination, as well as liability for harassment in the workplace under the Occupational Health & Safety Act (OHSA) wasn’t enough, employers in Ontario now need to be concerned about being sued civilly for “the tort …

Sections 14 through 54 of the National Defence Act (NDA) comprise Part II of that Act, sub-titled ‘The Canadian Forces’. It is from this Part of the NDA that we derive much of Parliament’s legislative direction concerning the constitution and administration of the Canadian Forces. It provides the building blocks of the Canadian Forces. The …

The Ontario Ombudsman issued a report recently, wherein he found the Election Compliance Audit Committee (“Committee”) of the City of Hamilton to be a local board of the municipality and therefore subject to the open meeting requirements of the Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001, C. 25 (“Municipal Act”). The Ombudsman also found that the Committee …

Most of us can agree: doing what it takes to leave a harmonious legacy to our loved ones on death is a worthwhile endeavor. A spouse trust can be a simple and effective way to accomplish this goal, especially if you are in a second marriage and have children from a previous relationship. By creating …

There are more than 25,000,000 hits on Google related to International Women’s Day (IWD). This may not be a very reliable measure of how far women have come since March 8th was declared as IWD in 1975, but it does show the importance of women’s issues in society today. I haven’t reviewed all of those …